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THE BOSTON
JEWISH TIMES
Write the vision and make it plain upon tables.
HABAKKUK 2:2
VOL. XLII, NO. 13
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1987
30 KISLEV 5747
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
Catholic Prelate Skirts
Controversy On Israeli Trip
By Susan Bloch
Symbolic acts count for a
great deal in the Middle East,
where even a gesture is subject to
many interpretations. That is
precisely why John Cardinal
O'Connor, Archbishop of New
York, originally chose to include
Israel in his Middle East
itinerary.
As the ranking Catholic
prelate in the American city with
a larger Jewish population than
the State of Israel, Cardinal
O'Connor caused Jews quite a
bit of concern last June when he
stated in an interview with The
New York Times that "Any
honest observer out there always
comes back to a fundamental
question that, in my judgement,
we continue to ignore. And that
is the Palestinian question.
Somehow, a homeland has to be
provided for the Palestinian
peoples."
Although the Cardinal
stressed in the interview that
these comments were not meant
to undermine the State of Israel,
he was criticized by some
American Jewish organizations.
Others urged the Cardinal to
visit Israel. When then-Prime
Minister Shimon Peres was in
New York in September, an
official invitation was tendered
and the Cardinal accepted.
He left on Saturday for the
trip which began in Jordan.
Thursday he is scheduled to
cross into Israel over the Allenby
Bridge.
Originally, he had agreed to
meetings with Prime Minister
West Bank
Editor Deported
By Susan Bloch
JERUSALEM - In the midst
of much controversy, Pales-
tinian newspaper editor Akram
Haniye dropped his appeal to
the Israeli Supreme Court and
capitulated to a deportation
order.
Haniye is accused of being
actively involved in illegal
activities for the PLO. Military
authorities on the West Bank
alleged that his office had
become a meeting place for Al
Fatah leaders, although he was
ript directly connected to any
terrorist activities.
After the original deportation
order two months ago, Haniye
filed an appeal with the Israeli
Supreme court. He was
defended by Felicia Langer, a
prominent Israeli civil rights
lawyer. When the Supreme
Court ruled that he could not see
the bulk of the evidence against
him, Haniye dropped his appeal.
The court maintained that
disclosure of the evidence would
jeopardize intelligence sources
and could even cost them their
lives. Without access to the
evidence or a chance to confront
his accusers, Haniye maintained
he had no choice but to drop the
appeal.
The army charged that Haniye
was a high-ranking member of
the Al Fatah, a PLO branch and
a conduit for funds and
instructions to members in the
occupied territories.
Haniye is the first Palestinian
to be deported in five years.
Palestinian activists have
maintained that he was deported
as part of an Israeli-Jordanian
policy of undermining the PLO
in the occupied territories. The
33-year-old editor of Al Shaab,
considered among the moderate
Palestinian papers, has been
critical of Jordan's King
Hussein. There were fears he
would be deported to Jordan.
Israeli authorities were quick
to point out that Haniye was not
being expelled for his
journalistic activities and that
Israel allows the publication of
Palestinian papers.
Writers and journalists in
Israel and abroad appealed to
the government to reverse its
decision. An 'sraeli, in an
affidavit submitted to the
Surpreme Court, wrote that if
Haniye were expelled, "Israelis
will lose an influential partner
with whom it is possible to
conduct a dialogue; with whom
we can arrive at a state of
peaceful coexistence."
Haniye left Israel with
members of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
which arranged transit to
Geneva. From there he is
reported to be headed for
Algeria.
According to Israeli Embassy
sources, Haniye can return to his
hometown of Ramallah if he
shows evidence of changing his
political behavior. However,
having waived the appeal to the
Supreme Court, he will be
unable to reappeal his case.
YitzhakJShamir. President Chaim
Herzog and Jerusalem Mayor
Teddy Kollek. After submitting
his itinerary to the Vatican
Secretariat of State, he was
informed that the Holy See had
no objection to his trip, but
requested he follow "the
customary guidelines for the
trip."
When the Papal Pro-Nuncio
in Washington reminded him
that the guidelines forbid
Cardinals to visit Israeli chiefs of
state in Jerusalem, he admitted
he had not paid sufficient
attention to that issue.
The Vatican does not
maintain diplomatic relations
with the State of Israel nor does
it recognize Israeli control over
the city of Jerusalem. It has'
called for the city to be
internationalized.
Nonetheless, it is believed that
the meeting with Mayor Kollek
will still take place in the
0 :,
municipal office. According to
an Israeli official, "Teddy and
O'Connor had a chat by
telephone and O'Connor made it
clear that he never had any
intention of not seeing the
Mayor and would come to his
office."
The Vatican has stated that
although it does not have full
diplomatic ties with Israel, that
does not mean the Vatican
refuses to recognize Israel or
denies Israel's existence. They
maintain a diplomatic mission in
Israel headed by an Apostolic
Delegate, who has had meetings
at the Foreign Ministry and the
Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Although heavily pressed in
recent years to recognize Israel,
the Vatican has maintained its
distance. Aside from disagreeing
over the status of Jerusalem, the
Church is concerned about
perceptions of its position by
other parties in the Middle East.
At one point, ' Cardinal
O'Connor considered cancelling
the Israel portion of the trip but
decided instead to apologize for
the diplomatic faux pas and
continue as planned. He is
reported to have told an Israeli
Demjanjuk Case
Postponed To
February 16
JERUSALEM � A
spokesman for the Israeli
Ministry of Justice said that
the three judges in the John
Demjanjuk trial have granted
a delay of four weeks in the
trial. The request came from
Demjanjuk's American
lawyer, Mark O'Connor, who
said he needs more time to
prepare the defense.
Demjanjuk, a retired
American autoworker from
Cleveland, Ohio, is accused of
being 'Ivan the Terrible,' a
notorious prison guard at
Treblinka who killed
thousands. He became the
first alleged war criminal ever
extradited from America
after the U.S. Justice
Department stripped him of
his citizenship.
The trial was originally
scheduled to begin on
January 19.
official, "You're going to have to
do everthing you can to convince
your government that nobody
intended any embarrassment."
While in Jordan, it was
understood that Cardinal
O'Connor will hold official
meetings with King Hussein and
Prime Minister /laid al-Rafai.
Visiting the Baqaa refugee
camp outside Amman, the
Cardinal reiterated his stance on
the Palestinian issue. "No one
can spend any time out here
without suffering with the
Palestinian people and
recognizing the very crucial
need," he said.
Later in the day while visiting
the ruins of the ancient city of
Jeresh, he commented that he
was puzzled that "magnificent
cities like this could be built, but
you can't house Palestinians."
Questioned earlier whether
the Palestinians had remained in
the camps as a way of continuing
to call attention to their plight,
he said, "Would you live like that
if your didn't have to in order to
make a political statement?"
While complimenting the
Israelis on what they had done to
See Catholic page 7
Shamir Cleared Of
Shin Bet Cover-up
By Susan Bloch
TEL AVIV - The Shabak
scandal in which high officials of
the Israeli government were
implicated in the murder of two
Palestinian terrorists has finally
come to an end. An official
government inquiry has
determined that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir did not order
the killings nor was he warned of
the cover-up.
An official Israeli army
communique, issued after the
April 13, 1984 incident stated
that two of the four Palestinian
hijackers were killed when
soldiers stormed the bus with its
35 hostages and that the two
others died en route to the
hospital. However, photos taken
on the scene showed' the two
captured hijackers being led
away unharmed. Two commis-
sions of inquiry found that the
hijackers had been beaten to
death, by members of Israels
secret service, the Shin Bet.
An internal probe of the Shin
Bet cleared five agents of
wrongdoing. At the time of the
investigation, retired Shin Bet
chief Avraham Shalom is
reported to have said that
Shamir had previously given
him permission to kill captured
terrorists under certain
circumstances and that Shamir
was aware of the murders. The
report concluded that Shalom
did not have permission to kill
the two hijackers and that the
content of the discussion
between Shamir and Shalom
was unclear. Avraham Shalom
will not be prosecuted as he
received a presidential pardon.
He had resigned from his
position in exchange for
immunity. The incident occurred
while Shamir was Prime
Minister and Shalom was
directly responsible to him.
"The file should now be closed
so as not to harm Israel's secret
services," Israel radio quoted
Shamir as saying this week.
The Justice Ministry report
was made available to the Israeli
press, but not to foreign
correspondents.
While many in Israel would
like to see the matter come to an
tend, some Knesset members
have called for yet another
commission of inquiry into the
event and to determine
ministerial responsibility.

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THE BOSTON
JEWISH TIMES
Write the vision and make it plain upon tables.
HABAKKUK 2:2
VOL. XLII, NO. 13
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1987
30 KISLEV 5747
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
Catholic Prelate Skirts
Controversy On Israeli Trip
By Susan Bloch
Symbolic acts count for a
great deal in the Middle East,
where even a gesture is subject to
many interpretations. That is
precisely why John Cardinal
O'Connor, Archbishop of New
York, originally chose to include
Israel in his Middle East
itinerary.
As the ranking Catholic
prelate in the American city with
a larger Jewish population than
the State of Israel, Cardinal
O'Connor caused Jews quite a
bit of concern last June when he
stated in an interview with The
New York Times that "Any
honest observer out there always
comes back to a fundamental
question that, in my judgement,
we continue to ignore. And that
is the Palestinian question.
Somehow, a homeland has to be
provided for the Palestinian
peoples."
Although the Cardinal
stressed in the interview that
these comments were not meant
to undermine the State of Israel,
he was criticized by some
American Jewish organizations.
Others urged the Cardinal to
visit Israel. When then-Prime
Minister Shimon Peres was in
New York in September, an
official invitation was tendered
and the Cardinal accepted.
He left on Saturday for the
trip which began in Jordan.
Thursday he is scheduled to
cross into Israel over the Allenby
Bridge.
Originally, he had agreed to
meetings with Prime Minister
West Bank
Editor Deported
By Susan Bloch
JERUSALEM - In the midst
of much controversy, Pales-
tinian newspaper editor Akram
Haniye dropped his appeal to
the Israeli Supreme Court and
capitulated to a deportation
order.
Haniye is accused of being
actively involved in illegal
activities for the PLO. Military
authorities on the West Bank
alleged that his office had
become a meeting place for Al
Fatah leaders, although he was
ript directly connected to any
terrorist activities.
After the original deportation
order two months ago, Haniye
filed an appeal with the Israeli
Supreme court. He was
defended by Felicia Langer, a
prominent Israeli civil rights
lawyer. When the Supreme
Court ruled that he could not see
the bulk of the evidence against
him, Haniye dropped his appeal.
The court maintained that
disclosure of the evidence would
jeopardize intelligence sources
and could even cost them their
lives. Without access to the
evidence or a chance to confront
his accusers, Haniye maintained
he had no choice but to drop the
appeal.
The army charged that Haniye
was a high-ranking member of
the Al Fatah, a PLO branch and
a conduit for funds and
instructions to members in the
occupied territories.
Haniye is the first Palestinian
to be deported in five years.
Palestinian activists have
maintained that he was deported
as part of an Israeli-Jordanian
policy of undermining the PLO
in the occupied territories. The
33-year-old editor of Al Shaab,
considered among the moderate
Palestinian papers, has been
critical of Jordan's King
Hussein. There were fears he
would be deported to Jordan.
Israeli authorities were quick
to point out that Haniye was not
being expelled for his
journalistic activities and that
Israel allows the publication of
Palestinian papers.
Writers and journalists in
Israel and abroad appealed to
the government to reverse its
decision. An 'sraeli, in an
affidavit submitted to the
Surpreme Court, wrote that if
Haniye were expelled, "Israelis
will lose an influential partner
with whom it is possible to
conduct a dialogue; with whom
we can arrive at a state of
peaceful coexistence."
Haniye left Israel with
members of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
which arranged transit to
Geneva. From there he is
reported to be headed for
Algeria.
According to Israeli Embassy
sources, Haniye can return to his
hometown of Ramallah if he
shows evidence of changing his
political behavior. However,
having waived the appeal to the
Supreme Court, he will be
unable to reappeal his case.
YitzhakJShamir. President Chaim
Herzog and Jerusalem Mayor
Teddy Kollek. After submitting
his itinerary to the Vatican
Secretariat of State, he was
informed that the Holy See had
no objection to his trip, but
requested he follow "the
customary guidelines for the
trip."
When the Papal Pro-Nuncio
in Washington reminded him
that the guidelines forbid
Cardinals to visit Israeli chiefs of
state in Jerusalem, he admitted
he had not paid sufficient
attention to that issue.
The Vatican does not
maintain diplomatic relations
with the State of Israel nor does
it recognize Israeli control over
the city of Jerusalem. It has'
called for the city to be
internationalized.
Nonetheless, it is believed that
the meeting with Mayor Kollek
will still take place in the
0 :,
municipal office. According to
an Israeli official, "Teddy and
O'Connor had a chat by
telephone and O'Connor made it
clear that he never had any
intention of not seeing the
Mayor and would come to his
office."
The Vatican has stated that
although it does not have full
diplomatic ties with Israel, that
does not mean the Vatican
refuses to recognize Israel or
denies Israel's existence. They
maintain a diplomatic mission in
Israel headed by an Apostolic
Delegate, who has had meetings
at the Foreign Ministry and the
Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Although heavily pressed in
recent years to recognize Israel,
the Vatican has maintained its
distance. Aside from disagreeing
over the status of Jerusalem, the
Church is concerned about
perceptions of its position by
other parties in the Middle East.
At one point, ' Cardinal
O'Connor considered cancelling
the Israel portion of the trip but
decided instead to apologize for
the diplomatic faux pas and
continue as planned. He is
reported to have told an Israeli
Demjanjuk Case
Postponed To
February 16
JERUSALEM � A
spokesman for the Israeli
Ministry of Justice said that
the three judges in the John
Demjanjuk trial have granted
a delay of four weeks in the
trial. The request came from
Demjanjuk's American
lawyer, Mark O'Connor, who
said he needs more time to
prepare the defense.
Demjanjuk, a retired
American autoworker from
Cleveland, Ohio, is accused of
being 'Ivan the Terrible,' a
notorious prison guard at
Treblinka who killed
thousands. He became the
first alleged war criminal ever
extradited from America
after the U.S. Justice
Department stripped him of
his citizenship.
The trial was originally
scheduled to begin on
January 19.
official, "You're going to have to
do everthing you can to convince
your government that nobody
intended any embarrassment."
While in Jordan, it was
understood that Cardinal
O'Connor will hold official
meetings with King Hussein and
Prime Minister /laid al-Rafai.
Visiting the Baqaa refugee
camp outside Amman, the
Cardinal reiterated his stance on
the Palestinian issue. "No one
can spend any time out here
without suffering with the
Palestinian people and
recognizing the very crucial
need," he said.
Later in the day while visiting
the ruins of the ancient city of
Jeresh, he commented that he
was puzzled that "magnificent
cities like this could be built, but
you can't house Palestinians."
Questioned earlier whether
the Palestinians had remained in
the camps as a way of continuing
to call attention to their plight,
he said, "Would you live like that
if your didn't have to in order to
make a political statement?"
While complimenting the
Israelis on what they had done to
See Catholic page 7
Shamir Cleared Of
Shin Bet Cover-up
By Susan Bloch
TEL AVIV - The Shabak
scandal in which high officials of
the Israeli government were
implicated in the murder of two
Palestinian terrorists has finally
come to an end. An official
government inquiry has
determined that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir did not order
the killings nor was he warned of
the cover-up.
An official Israeli army
communique, issued after the
April 13, 1984 incident stated
that two of the four Palestinian
hijackers were killed when
soldiers stormed the bus with its
35 hostages and that the two
others died en route to the
hospital. However, photos taken
on the scene showed' the two
captured hijackers being led
away unharmed. Two commis-
sions of inquiry found that the
hijackers had been beaten to
death, by members of Israels
secret service, the Shin Bet.
An internal probe of the Shin
Bet cleared five agents of
wrongdoing. At the time of the
investigation, retired Shin Bet
chief Avraham Shalom is
reported to have said that
Shamir had previously given
him permission to kill captured
terrorists under certain
circumstances and that Shamir
was aware of the murders. The
report concluded that Shalom
did not have permission to kill
the two hijackers and that the
content of the discussion
between Shamir and Shalom
was unclear. Avraham Shalom
will not be prosecuted as he
received a presidential pardon.
He had resigned from his
position in exchange for
immunity. The incident occurred
while Shamir was Prime
Minister and Shalom was
directly responsible to him.
"The file should now be closed
so as not to harm Israel's secret
services," Israel radio quoted
Shamir as saying this week.
The Justice Ministry report
was made available to the Israeli
press, but not to foreign
correspondents.
While many in Israel would
like to see the matter come to an
tend, some Knesset members
have called for yet another
commission of inquiry into the
event and to determine
ministerial responsibility.